Langlands Functoriality and -Homomorphisms
Maps that push forward Satake parameters
An -homomorphism is a group homomorphism such that:
- it commutes with the projections to the Galois/Weil groups, and
- its restriction to dual groups is an algebraic homomorphism .
Functoriality (as used in the letter): If has Satake parameters for , then the predicted transfer for should satisfy (for almost all )
as conjugacy classes in .
Remarks
This is exactly the letter's "second question," stated in terms of pushing forward .